Socialism 2024 is almost here!

Online registration for the conference is closed, but you can still register in person! Visit our registration table—on the second level of the Hyatt Conference Center—starting at 11:30am on Friday to register in person! Conference sessions will begin promptly at 2:30pm and you’ll need your registration badge to gain entry, so make sure to arrive early to avoid getting stuck in line. Here are some final conference reminders: We’re asking all conference attendees to take a rapid Covid test before traveling to Socialism 2024 (whether from across the country or across…

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Can’t make it to Chicago for Socialism 2024? Check out our live-stream schedule, and RSVP to join us virtually!

The Socialism 2024 virtual program will feature speakers including: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Noura Erakat, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rabbi Brant Rosen, George Abraham, Ilan Pappé, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Silky Shah, Harsha Walia, Sarah Jaffe, Eman Abdelhadi, Kelly Hayes, Vincent Bevins, Hanif Abdurraqib, and more.  Making sure that conference sessions are accessible to folks who aren’t able to join us in person is very important to us—but it also comes with a hefty price tag. While all of our live-streamed programming is available for free, please consider RSVPing for…

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Unified for Human Rights: Boycott Maccabi’s Support of Oppression

Why this petition matters Started by Gauteng T2 I hope this finds you well. The intention of this petition is to address an issue of profound importance concerning the values and affiliations associated with Maccabi South Africa, the Maccabi Table Tennis Club, and partner entities like JusTT. After careful reflection and extensive deliberation within our own organization (Gauteng T2 Table Tennis Club), it has come to our attention that the Maccabi South Africa publicly aligns itself with Zionist ideologies and supports the State of Israel. Refer: https://maccabi.co.za/site/our-purpose/“…while promoting Zionism and supporting the…

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Friedrich Engels. The eternal comrade

By José Miguel Gándara C. La Marx Spain On August 5, humanity was commemorating, because it was 129 years since the death of one of the most brilliant minds not only of the 19th century, but of the entire corpus of Marxist thought. On August 5, 1895, a scientific communist, co-author of the founding works of unionism, socialism and communism, Friedrich Engels, died in London, England. This had seen the light in Barmen, Prussia, on November 28, 1820, he was born into a bourgeois family, since it owned a good…

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Long live the triumph of Ukraine in the Battle of Kursk!

La Marx International In a dramatic twist, at around 8 a.m. on August 6, 2024, the Ukrainian army entered the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation and in a few days took control of more than 70 villages, including where the Gazprom gas pipeline is located Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod which transports around 14,650 million cubic meters of gas to Europe.  They have inflicted a beating on Putin through a military feat that can completely change the course of Ukraine’s War of National Liberation. Events evolve minute by minute, much…

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Nikhila Odisha Jeebika Mission EC Sangha Staged staged State level Rally at Bhubaneswar forced State Govt to Stop restructuring of EC Members today on 9th August 2024.

Demands Submitted to State Govt and fruitful discussion held with Mission Sakti Addl Secretary & Director, they assured that the Department will not insist on restructure. They also told that the Records, Registers, Passbook, Account Books & other things of GPLF is to be kept in GPLF Office, if there is no office it has to be kept with President & Secretary of GPLF. By Jayantha Das

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Long live the revolution in Bangladesh!!

La Marx International A huge insurrection led by thousands of young people is raging in 47 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts against the capitalist government of Sheikh Hasina Wazed and the Awami League in the world’s eighth most populous country. Prime Minister Hasina’s government has imposed a curfew, and the deployment of the army has launched a crackdown to stop the movement that has caused more than 100 deaths, according to breaking hospital data. Hasina’s government has also cut off telecommunications connections, news channels, and the internet to prevent the development…

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Even in Palestine, the Birds Shall Return: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2024)

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. ‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’, said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia De Meo of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Within Gaza, the UN officials wrote, 625,000 children are trapped, ‘their futures at risk’. The World Health Organisation has recorded ‘outbreaks…

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Presidentials 2024: Vote null, blank or abstention in the elections

By Simon Gallagher – La Marx US The candidacies of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump represent and defend the interests of the ruling classes. Their candidacies serve the interests of bankers, millionaires, Wall Street, and Pentagon bosses. Both parties are responsible for the growing poverty and inequality of our people, as well as for the war crimes that are perpetrated against the peoples in Palestine, Ukraine, and in the past, in Iraq or Vietnam. Don’t vote for them! Annul your vote, vote blank, or abstention in the 2024 presidential elections!…

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